SOLICITORS & LAND AGENTS.
ALLEGED COMxMISSIONS. AN ASSERTION AND A DENIAL. [United Phess Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Mx Beswick, speaking for the Law Society, made reference to a case heard yesterday, in which Mr Cresswell, barrister, stated that it was a common practice for solicitors to accept commissions from land agents on business put through the agents hands by them. Mr Beswick gave tlie statement an emphatic denial, and was followed in the same strain by all the lawyers in the Court. Mr Bishop, S.M., said he might have misunderstood Mr Cresswel, but he was glad ao hear the emphatic denials of the bar that the solicitors of Christchurch accepted such commissions.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 5 March 1909, Page 2
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115SOLICITORS & LAND AGENTS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 5 March 1909, Page 2
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